BILL NUMBER: SB 552 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY FEBRUARY 22, 2000
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY JULY 8, 1999
AMENDED IN SENATE MAY 6, 1999
AMENDED IN SENATE MARCH 25, 1999
INTRODUCED BY Senator Kelley
FEBRUARY 19, 1999
An act to add and repeal Sections 128 and 129 of the
Metropolitan Water District Act (Chapter 209 of the Statutes of
1969), relating to metropolitan water districts. An
act to amend Section 5.1 of the County Water Authority Act (Chapter
545 of the Statutes of 1943), relating to county water authorities.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 552, as amended, Kelley. Metropolitan Water District
of Southern California County water authorities
.
The County Water Authority Act provides for the formation of
county water authorities and grants to those authorities specified
power, including the authority to use its water, works, facilities,
improvements, and property to provide, generate, and deliver
hydroelectric power. Existing law provides for the restructuring of
the electrical services industry and, in this connection, provides
for the creation of a prescribed Power Exchange.
This bill would authorize an authority to sell hydroelectric power
generated by that authority through the Power Exchange.
(1) Existing law provides for the creation of metropolitan water
districts and requires a metropolitan water district to exercise its
powers by and through a board of directors.
This bill would require the Metropolitan Water District of
Southern California, on or before February 1, 2000, to submit to the
appropriate policy committees of the Legislature a report that
describes all deficiencies noted in a prescribed audit and the
actions that the district has taken, or is taking, to correct each of
those deficiencies. The bill would require the district, on or
before February 1, 2000, and each February 1, until January 1, 2005,
or as otherwise prescribed, to submit to the appropriate policy
committees of the Legislature a specified report concerning the
district's Inland Feeder Project. Because these provisions would
impose additional responsibilities upon the district, the bill would
impose a state-mandated local program.
(2) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse
local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this
act for a specified reason.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: yes no .
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 128 is added to the Metropolitan
SECTION 1. Section 5.1 of the County Water Authority Act (Chapter
545 of the Statutes of 1943) is amended to read:
Sec. 5.1. (a) Any authority incorporated as herein
provided shall have the power to under this act may
utilize any part of its water, and any parts of its works,
facilities, improvements, and property used for the development,
storage, and or transportation of
water, to provide, generate, and deliver hydroelectric power, and may
acquire, construct, operate, and maintain any and all works,
facilities, improvements, and property necessary or convenient for
such that utilization.
(b) Any authority incorporated as herein provided shall
have the power (1) pursuant under this act may do any
of the following:
(1) Pursuant to contract, to provide,
sell, and deliver hydroelectric power to the United States of America
or to any board, department, or agency thereof, to the
State of California state for the
purposes of the State Water Development System, and to any public
agency, private corporation , or any other person or
entity, or any combination thereof, engaged in the sale of electric
power at retail ; or (2) to use .
(2) Use all or any part of such
hydroelectric power directly, or indirectly through exchange, in
exercising any other power of an authority.
For
(3) Sell hydroelectric power generated pursuant to subdivision (a)
through the Power Exchange, as described in Chapter 2.3 (commencing
with Section 330) of Part 1 of Division 1 of the Public Utilities
Code.
(4) For the purposes of this subdivision, "public agency"
means a city, county, city and county, district, local agency, public
authority, or public corporation. Water District Act
(Chapter 209 of the Statutes of 1969), to read:
Sec. 128. (a) Notwithstanding Section 7550.5 of the Government
Code, on or before February 1, 2000, the Metropolitan Water District
of Southern California shall submit to the appropriate policy
committees of the Legislature a report that describes all
deficiencies noted in the audit conducted in the spring of 1999 on
cost overruns on the Eastside Reservoir Project, and the actions that
the district has taken, or is taking, to correct each of those
deficiencies.
(b) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2001, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted, before January 1, 2001, deletes or extends
that date.
SEC. 2. Section 129 is added to the Metropolitan Water District
Act (Chapter 209 of the Statutes of 1969), to read:
Sec. 129. (a) For purposes of this section, the "project" is the
Inland Feeder Project of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern
California.
(b) Notwithstanding Section 7550.5 of the Government Code, on or
before February 1, 2000, and each February 1 thereafter until
completion of the project, the Metropolitan Water District of
Southern California shall submit to the appropriate policy committees
of the Legislature, a report that describes all of the following:
(1) The progress made toward completion of the project.
(2) All expenditures of funds made for the project.
(3) Any variances between budgeted costs and actual costs for the
project.
(c) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2005, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 2005, deletes or extends that
date.
SEC. 3. No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to
Section 6 of Article XIIIB of the California Constitution because a
local agency or school district has the authority to levy service
charges, fees, or assessments sufficient to pay for the program or
level of service mandated by this act, within the meaning of Section
17556 of the Government Code.